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After bombing his first audition for the role of Usnavi, Anthony Ramos is starring in 'In The Heights' on the big screen.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Andre Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about a nationwide pandemic-era increase in Black-owned small businesses.

President Biden was in Tulsa, Oklahoma yesterday to mark 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre. While there, he announced a plan to tackle the racial wealth gap in the U.S., aimed at increasing home and small-business ownership in communities of color. Plus, why some American visa holders are stranded in India. And, CDC vaccine cards become de facto passports.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeGuests: Andre Perry, senior fellow a

Black people leaving the city of Pittsburgh has been a huge topic of conversation. On March 23, award-winning author Deesha Philyaw, who recently signed a...

The task force is the culmination of AB 3121 signed into law last year by Governor Newsom.

President Biden has released a plan to tackle racial wealth disparities in the United States, but he excluded the cancellation of student loan debt, which experts argue is one of the biggest parts of the problem.

In is not a fix. >> we need more testing in the housing market. we should do this in a systemic way. hud should be leading the charge. and it should not be with appraisals. black people with equivalent credit scores get worse loans than our white peers. we need testing to occur regularly. it should not be on the shoulders on the owner. we see discrimination at a individual level, from the anecdotes and from research. so the government needs to take heed and develop their own tests. >> same credi...

Ideas start the future, just like that. new reaction pouring in on president bidens plan focusing on housing and during his visit to tulsa, oklahoma, yesterday, marking 100 years since the tulsa race massacre. >> this story isnt about the loss of life, but a loss of living, of wealth and posterity and possibilities. it still reverberates today. >> joining us now andre perry, fellow at the brookings institution who literally wrote the book on the issues surrounding, your praise.

Estimates are around, to close the racial— estimates are around, to close the racial weld — estimates are around, to close the racial weld will cost anywhere from 10 trillion _ racial weld will cost anywhere from 10 trillion to $25 trillion to really— 10 trillion to $25 trillion to really eradicate the wealth gap. so, when _ really eradicate the wealth gap. so, when youre talking billions, its really— when youre talking billions, its really a — when youre talking billions, its really a...

Speech at some point. thank you. its interesting _ speech at some point. thank you. its interesting what _ speech at some point. thank you. its interesting what andre - speech at some point. thank you. its interesting what andre perry i its interesting what andre perry was saying there. my kids went to american public schools and learned about the civil rights movement. i dont remember them coming home and talking about the tulsa massacres, and i think thats because it wasnt really taught in sch...